Events at Willamette Valley Baptist | Willamette Valley Baptist Association

Shepherd to Shepherd Gatherings

The Northwest Baptist Convention organizes these gatherings. Our local meetings happen Jan-May in Eugene at Fairfield Baptist Church from 9:30am-1pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Lunch is provided with the cost of registration.

75$

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Pastor Lunches

Throughout the year, we have lunches together as pastors to connect, pray, and support one another. 2026 dates and locations are TBA.

Disciple Now Youth Conference

This conference is being organized by our friends at Northwest Collegiate Ministries and is open to youth in our WVBA churches in middle or high school. High school students will spend the night, but middle school students will have to be picked up on Friday night and brough back on Saturday morning.

Dates: February 20-21

25$

Parenting Conference

Hope in the Grove Baptist Church will be hosting a parenting conference with an open invitation for our WVBA churches in conjunction with Avodah Therapy, a local Christian counseling practice in Eugene staffed by people from our churches. More details TBA, but go ahead and mark your calendars.

Dates: March 13-14, 2026

Session Topics:
Family Discipleship
Brain Development
Parenting Under a Microscope
Connecting with the Heart
Wounds and Wounding
The Dangers of Technology
Marriage and Co-Parenting

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9Marks Northwest Conference

This is not a WVBA hosted event, but it is one we want you to know about. It takes place on Friday night and Saturday at Hinson Baptist Church in Portland. The theme this year is discipleship.

The 9Marks Northwest Conference is a way for Christians to learn about often-overlooked biblical practices for the church. The focus of this 2026 conference is the important topic of Discipling. Many evangelical Christians may have already formed opinions about discipleship informed by their good or bad experience of it in the local church. But what does the Bible say? And how should we practice healthy discipleship for the good of the church? This conference will be helpful to both vocational church leaders as well as lay leaders and congregants as we seek to encourage the breadth of the local church.

Speakers will present nine sessions on building healthy (that is, biblical) churches through a Biblical understanding and practice of discipleship. We will study the theology behind discipleship and the practical outworking of discipleship in the local church. There will be many opportunities throughout the conference to ask questions, dialogue with the speakers, and build relationships with other Christians.

Dates: March 6-7

75$

9Marks Weekender

The Weekender immerses church leaders and seminarians in the life of Hinson Baptist Church over the course of a weekend. You'll get an up-close and personal experience with our services, congregational meeting, focused teaching on the church, plenty of Q&A, and even sit in an Elder Meeting. The point is not to replicate exactly what you see. In fact, we'd prefer you don't! But we do want to show you what we do and the biblical and pastoral reasoning behind it. We hope this creates meaningful relationships with other churches while building each other up. We would love you to join us. Bring yourselves and whatever questions you have. From leadership to worship to body life, it's all on the table!

Dates: May 15-17, 2026